A great site, especially for girls who aspire to be scientists when they grow up. Read the biographies of ten fascinating women, travel through the timeline and find out the key events that happened each year, play some fun games or best of all, ask that science question that has been buzzing in your head forever - A real scientist may even answer it - If, he/she knows the answer!
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Learn science the fun way - Simply click on a broad topic like materials or living things, play with the topic, read up on it and then take the quiz - Could learning the subject get any more fun?
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Pac-Man Typing game is fun way to practice your typing skills. Instead of using the normal arrows you use letters. While it may sound easy it is tricky because once you use the letter that makes you go one direction it changes allowing you to sharpen your tying skills. And, just like in the real Pac-Man, the point of the game is to eat all the pac-dots and of course afterwards another ghost comes out and tries to eat you.
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Here is a great site where you can learn anything from typing to math and even making music - All by playing fun games of course. With each category neatly labeled, it is easy to find what you want and spend hours having fun (oops we meant learning!)
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A fun way to expand your vocabulary - Simply type in your name, chose any two letters that you would like your words to end with and try guess the ten words that the program has on its list.
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A wonderful resource for any budding artist who wishes to learn about artists, different art styles and the periods they were most popular in, as well as, the different mediums like oil paints, charcoal etc. that were used.
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Everything is great in small doses, especially science, math and language arts! This fun site educates you but in bite sizes only - And, don't forget to play some of the really fun games once you are done educating yourself.
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Ask any inventor or artist how they became so good at their craft, and they will tell you it was all to do with the things they played with or imagined when they were young. That is the main premise of this site developed by the Smithsonian Museum of American History. So go ahead - dream, solve, explore and create - this may be your first step towards that big invention.
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A really fun website where you can play som firefly games, learn some cool facts about the lightning bugs and also download great activities. Once you know everything there is to know about them, you can become a scientist by joining the Firefly Watch Project set up by Boston's Museum of Science. If that's not enough there are a number of firefly jokes (some actually funny) that you can impress your friends with.
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